Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-24 Thread Gordon Frank
When does BMC buy out Kinetic? Any bets? This seems to be the trend. Might be a good thing.   Here's one: When does Oracle buy out BMC? Peoplesoft, Sun, Java, Remedy, Kinetic, Numara, Business Objects - TBD, when does SAP say enough?. Of course then Microsoft will include it all in

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-24 Thread Pat Zandi
Does kinetic do multi tenecy? Do they integrate with the whole itsm suite without developer building workflow ? I don't know ... but is it the same approach? Not sure Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:25, Gordon Frank gjj...@comcast.net wrote: ** When does BMC buy out Kinetic? Any

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-24 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I don't think Oracle is interested at all in acquiring BMC, I don't think t would be a good fit for either one. However, it was a very good thing that Oracle got Sun, including all the hardware (SPARC, storage, etc) and all the software (Java, Solaris, etc). Looks like the only part that is not

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-24 Thread Axton
Publicly traded companies are much easier to acquire. It takes less convincing and more coercing. With a private company, there is usually a person or small group of people that have to be convinced to sell, and it's not always about the money; i.e., you can't buy what is not for sale. Oracle